The ways of God developed in His word

How diverse and perfect is the development of the ways of God
in His word! Not only does it contain the great events that
establish the fact of His government, and the character of that
government& -- not only the proofs of His fidelity to His people,
and His estimate of the evil that led to judgment, but also His
answer to every feeling caused by the series of events by which He
chastised them, the relief which He affords to the anguish that
must be felt by one who is faithful, on account of the affliction
of God's beloved people, together with the profitable exercise of
his faith. The perfect ways of God are unfolded on the one side,
and on the other the heart is formed to the intelligence of those
ways, and to the enjoyment of the full effect of the faithfulness
of the God of love; while, during the expectation of this effect,
confidence in God Himself is established, and the links of the
heart with God are abundantly strengthened.

The subject of Habakkuk's prophecy

It is of the latter part, the development of faith and of
spiritual affections amid the trial, that Habakkuk treats in his
prophecy. It speaks of the exercise of the heart of one who, full
of the Spirit, is attached to the people of God. Still, it is
Israel that is brought before us.